dissemble

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

But most of us had come to expect our leaders to duck, deal and dissemble until it would be too late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

This facility will soon mandate that all visitors be vaccinated, but my relative plans to dissemble in order to evade the requirement.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2021

Even under the greatest duress, my capability to dissemble was scarcely diminished.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Maradona, young and handsome, dissembles for a moment, before the president of the club, Corrado Ferlaino, steps in to reject the notion with full-throated anger.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 13, 2019

Looking at the tape of her statement, it is remarkable how smoothly she dissembles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2019

Sure, she compromises, she sometimes dissembles and at times her judgment has been flawed.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2016

Well said, Dunstan: but what merits he, that dissembles with his sovereign?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

As is evidently his habit, Walker dissembled, while throwing in some incomprehensible commentary.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2022

He was said to have dissembled when people on the call asked about whether repeat shop lifters or people who commit assaults without a weapon would be prosecuted and face jail terms.

From Fox News ● Jan. 20, 2022

Politicians have exaggerated and dissembled since time immemorial, including in their email dispatches.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

Instead, when asked by the media about his own knowledge or participation in the call, Secretary Pompeo dissembled.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

Time was when Mr. Swift MacNeill successfully dissembled his affection for the House of Lords.

From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 by Various

Then, the dissembling from Burden’s husband, the declarations that it meant nothing, that he still loved her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

This fits his dissembling about his reason for vetoing the tax-credit bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

“Family Plan,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the dissembling patriarch, plays it for laughs, using his deception and its unraveling as a springboard for screwball comedy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023

Oppenheimer’s dissembling would be exploited by Strauss and Robb to discredit virtually his every word, becoming a linchpin of the campaign to destroy him.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik